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Prevention of Alcohol Withdrawal Seizures With Oral Diazepam Loading

Journal of Urology, 1985
Twenty patients withdrawing from alcohol who had reliable histories of previous alcohol-withdrawal seizures and thus were at high risk for a subsequent seizure were treated in hospital with oral diazepam loading: 20 mg of the drug was given every hour to a minimum total of 60 mg. None of the patients had a seizure during the stay in hospital.
P, Devenyi, M L, Harrison
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Prevention of alcohol withdrawal seizures with carbamazepine and valproic acid

Alcohol, 1989
To evaluate the value of the nonsedative anticonvulsants carbamazepine and valproic acid a controlled study including drug monitoring was carried out. Intoxicated alcoholics (n = 138) were admitted for inpatient detoxication and randomly assigned to either carbamazepine (n = 43), sodium valproate (n = 46) or placebo (n = 49) in a double-blind fashion ...
M, Hillbom, R, Tokola, V, Kuusela, P, Kärkkäinen, L, Källi-Lemma, A, Pilke, M, Kaste   +6 more
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Effects of phentermine and fenfluramine on alcohol consumption and alcohol withdrawal seizures in rats

Alcohol, 2000
The drug combination of phentermine plus fenfluramine has been used clinically in both the treatment of obesity and alcoholism. The aim of the current study was to assess the interaction of the two drugs on consumption of both an alcohol-containing and a nonalcoholic diet.
A K, Halladay, H, Fisher, G C, Wagner
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Diphenylhydantoin Control of Alcohol Withdrawal Seizures

JAMA, 1974
Diphenylhydantoin (300 mg/day) or placebo was "blindly" administered for five days to 157 patients entering an alcoholism detoxification unit; all patients received sedative doses of chlordiazepoxide. All patients had a history of convulsions in adulthood.
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Prevention of Alcohol Withdrawal Seizures: The Roles of Diphenylhydantoin and Chlordiazepoxide

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1973
Two hundred patients with histories of chronic alcoholism and recent bouts of heavy and uncontrolled drinking were treated for alcohol withdrawal symptoms through the use of chlordiazepoxide and thiamine. One hundred of these patients, chosen at random, also received diphenylhydantoin. No withdrawal seizures occurred in either group, nor were any other
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Alcohol withdrawal seizures: Alternatives for treatment and prevention

Nordisk Psykiatrisk Tidsskrift, 1987
Both sedative and nonsedative anticonvulsants can be used for the prevention of alcohol withdrawal seizures. However, only a small group of alcoholics may develop seizures and, therefore, all alcoholics need not to be treated. Those abusing psychotropic drugs form a special risk group which needs protective medication for a couple of weeks after drug ...
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Carbamazepine

Neurology, 1979
Effects of carbamazepine on alcohol withdrawal seizures and symptoms were studied in rats. Carbamazepine was administered during alcohol feeding and continued during alcohol withdrawal. When carbamazepine serum levels were above 3 micrograms per milliliter, alcohol withdrawal seizures were not observed.
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Alcohol Withdrawal Seizures

2006
PROSPER N'GOUEMO, MICHAEL A. ROGAWSKI
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Alcohol Withdrawal and Seizures

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1989
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Assessment of the Role of Kindling in the Pathogenesis of Alcohol Withdrawal Seizures and Delirium Tremens

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 1999
Marcin Wojnar
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